On Thu, 28 May 2009, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Quite. I argued the "no orphan instances in libraries" position on the
> libraries list last year, here's the start of the (longish) thread:
>>http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2008-September/010618.html
I remember. What I propose additionally is, that, when orphan instances
are banned, we can allow addition of instances with the A.B.* version
range just like this is allowed for all other language elements.
> We ought to have a "guidelines for API design" section of the wiki somewhere,
> so we could put this in it.
That's currently spread across Category:Style.